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Dive In: Pools by Design Creates Dallas’ Splashiest Custom Pools

By Elaine Raffel / February 18, 2024 /

Leave it to New Leaf Custom Home founders Scott and Melissa Powell to take the concept of full-service and elevate it to a whole new level. Their latest venture, Pools by Design, takes a design-centric approach to outdoor living, creating swoon-worthy spaces as fashionable as they are functional.

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Magdalen House Opens New Men’s Detox Facility With a Little Help From Stager Karen Otto

By April Towery / January 18, 2024 /

A new Magdalen House facility on Caddo Street offers a no-cost two-week social detoxification program for men suffering from alcoholism — and it was important to the nonprofit organization’s leaders that it be safe, comfortable, and feel like a real home. Enter Karen Otto and Home Star Staging.  Otto met Magdalen House Women’s Coordinator Ashleigh…

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{neighborhood} Has a New Thing: Home Staging, Design Tips, And Everything Else

By Nikki Barringer / June 20, 2023 /

JP and Erin Hossley are a married design team and also shop owners, art curators, gallery owners, exclusive retailers, stylists, and a home staging team. They’re wonderful in every way and above all else they’re talented, humble and so much fun to work with. If you’re up for a story with twists and turns and…

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Eve Short Brings Redolence Gems Candles to Dallas From Palm Beach

By Candy Evans / November 30, 2022 /

There is nothing more fitting to the holiday season than candles and the flickering of candlelight as the days turn shorter for winter. One luxury candle-maker with strong Dallas ties is lighting the way with her brand of custom fragrant, soy-based candles named Redolence Gems that are designed to invoke memories with specific, custom-made scents.…

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Dallas Designer Poonam Patel Discusses Her Process For Amazing Remodels

By Daniel Lalley / March 26, 2022 /

Having just secured a Dallas Builder’s Association Home of the Week, Poonam Patel, President of Urban Loop Studio, is on the road to becoming one of the area’s most renowned renovators. Recently, she sat down with CandysDirt.com to discuss just how she’s been able to achieve standout success as an up-and-coming Dallas designer. First Things…

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